Abstract

MIGLIORINI, Walter José Martins  and  FREITAS, Lídia Maria Chacon de. Transitional objects and developing the ability to trouble. J. psicanal. [online]. 2018, vol.51, n.95, pp. 89-103. ISSN 0103-5835.

The objective of the present work is to emphasize the historical and conceptual relationship between the theory of transitional phenomena and the antisocial tendency theory, focusing on the personal and symbolic use of inanimate objects. Winnicott (1956/2005) acknowledged that deprivation, before being the result of a traumatic rupture of emotional development, is a common experience during mothering and that the transitional object is an indicator that the baby has already attained, or is about to reach, the ability to trouble. However, when traumatic, deprivation is followed by a dissociative process in which access to transitionality is regressively lost and inanimate objects become impersonal objects. A reflection derived from this theme is that of the place of the symbolic objects and the impersonal objects in our daily life and their effects in the psychic suffering of the present time.

Keywords : transitional object; impersonal object; antisocial tendency; deprivation; self-harm.

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